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Nonconformers: a new history of self-taught artists
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Table of Contents
From the Book
Here I am: agency, awareness, and audience --
Terminology: tastes, gates, labels, and suits --
Part 1: 20th century origins and representations. --
Chapter 1. --
Modern primitives: MoMA exhibits the self-taught (1932-1944) --
Once seen as modern / Katherine Jentleson --
Artist focus: William Edmondson --
Artist perspectives: Henri Rousseau, John Kane, Mirris Hirshfield, Horace Pippin, Pedro Lopez Cervántez --
Chapter 2. --
l'Art Brut: defining creative agency (1944-1966) --
Origins of Art Brut, history and legacy / Sarah Lombardi --
Artist focus: Aloïse Corbaz --
Artist perspectives: Adolf Wölfli, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Augustin Lesage, Auguste Forestier, Marguerite Sirvins --
Chapter 3. --
Outsider art: the title that shapes a genre (1972-1979) --
Roger Cardinal, the art of the artless / John Maizels --
Artist focus: Madge Gill --
Artist perspectives: Scottie Wilson, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Anna Zemánková, Johann Hauser, August Walla --
Chapter 4. --
Black folk art: presenting self-taught African American artists (1976-1982) --
What it was, Black folk art in America / Cheryl Finley --
Artist focus: Bill Trayor --
Artist perspectives: Joseph E. Yoakum, Elijah Pierce, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sam Doyle --
Part 2: Disparate boundaries. --
Chapter 5. --
Clandestine: exploring privacy, intimacy, and isolation in creativity --
Portals of the imagination / Michael Bonesteel --
Artist focus: Henry Darger --
Artist perspectives: James Castle, Charles A.A. Dellschau, Melvin Way, Guo Fengyi, Emery Blagdon --
Chapter 6. --
Renegades: persona and messaging in art practice --
Original renegade(s) / Phillip March Jones --
Artist focus: Lee Godie --
Artist perspectives: Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Prophet Royal Robertson, Kwame Akoto, Horst Ademeit --
Chapter 7. --
Environments: changing personal and public surroundings --
Singular spaces/authentic visions / Jo Farb Hernández --
Artist focus: Nek Chand --
Artist perspectives: Helen Martins, Prophet Isaiah Robertson, Huang Yong-Fu, Josep Pujiula i Vila, Niki de Saint Phalle --
Chapter 8. --
Ability: advocating for artistic development --
Shifting focus, a brief history of disability art in global contexts / Tom di Maria --
Artist focus: Judith Scott --
Artist perspectives: Julian Martin, Andrew Omoding, Julia Krause-Harder, Walter Mika, Tomoyuki Shinki --
Part 3: Compositions. --
Chapter 9. --
Abstraction: beyond representation --
Alternative expressions / Lisa Slominski --
Artist interview; George Widener, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos --
Artist perspectives: Hilma af Klint, Janet Sobel, Thornton Dial, Nnena Kalu, Junko Yamamoto --
Chapter 10: --
Landscapes: documenting the real and the imagined --
Seeing scenes / Lisa Slominski --
Artist interview: Mamadou Cissé, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos --
Artist perspectives: Grandma Moses, Martín Ramírez, Minnie Evans, Katsuyoshi Takenaka, Katsuhiro Terao --
Chapter 11. --
Figuration: memory reproduction, and documentation --
Close encounters / Lisa Slominski --
Artist interview: William Scott, interviewed by Sophia Cosmadopoulos --
Artist perspectives: Shinchi Sawada, Davood Koochaki, Helen Rae, Carlo Zinelli, Chéri Samba.
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